Re: [PATCH 2/9] oom: oom_kill_process() doesn't select kthreadchild

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> 
> Now, select_bad_process() have PF_KTHREAD check, but oom_kill_process
> doesn't. It mean oom_kill_process() may choose wrong task, especially,
> when the child are using use_mm().
> 

This type of check should be moved to badness(), it will prevent these 
types of tasks from being selected both in select_bad_process() and 
oom_kill_process() if the score it returns is 0.
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